David, I thought you were a sensible chap. What happened with child benefits?

Oh dear, David – and I thought that you were the sensible chap who would insist on policies being properly thought out, and the “law of unintended consequences” evaded.

And then you allowed that moronic proposal on child allowances. It took no more than a second to work out that a household with only one earner would feel hard done by when the neighbouring household with nearly twice the income would not be penalised. If you don’t know how that kind of comparison plays out with the public, any first year student of psychology could have told you. Perhaps you should employ one.